How many times are you going to shove these same videos down our throats ?
Enough already.This is exactly what Rumble is talking about.
Like I said,get the car running already. Until then your turbo jabber is meaningless. Heck,I've built 2 complete cars before you've finished a motor !
Believe it or not I have been pulling for you, but for you to tell some kid to turbo his slant when you can't even seem to get yours finished isn't sound advice.
That's a valid complaint. Our problem in getting this car "finished" has been three-fold. 1. We chose a car for this "project" that had been sitting out in a field for the last 15 years (1964 Valiant) and was in the worst shape of disrepair that you could imagine. Bottom line: EVERYTHING that moved (with the exception of the steering box) had to be rebuilt or replaced. EVERYTHING... and, that's time-consuming. Front suspension, included... 2. We are two old guys whose better days are long gone (ages 73 and 74) so, nothing gets done quickly. We both had health issues that took us out of the loop as far as working on the car from time-to-time (I had an infected toe amputated, Freddy has heart problems that required a de-fibrilator to be installed...) Lots of parking lot dings in the Valiant had to be fixed before it could go to the body shop for paint. We are supposed to pick it up tomorrow, finished. Let's hope so! 3. Camshaft selextion took a long time; I wanted a cam with at least .50"-lift, but Tom and Ryan had proven that duration @ .050" shouldn't be over about 210-degrees, so that became a logistics problem (the ramp gets so steep that the edge of the lifter digs into the cam lobe,) so we tried getting some 1.6:1 rocker arms made to alleviate that problem. That project is still ongoing.
In the meantime (before the car gets operational) it's no mystery as to how a motor with these specs will perform; all we have to do is look at the videos of these two cars to see what is possible. Those are proof-positive that a 500-horsepower turbo slant six is not just pie-in-the-sky dreaming. They did it!
That's not to say that OUR car will be that fast, but it SHOULD be. Tom and Ryan have tuning skills that Freddie and I don't possess yet, but we will continue to work with this motor until it does the right thing.
In the meantime, we have to understand that if Tom's Dart and Ryan's Valiant can do it, it CAN be done.
So, when a doubting Thomas raises doubts, "get the car running already. Until then your turbo jabber is meaningless." it's pretty easy to see, with those two videos, that it is, indeed, possible, and even a fact of life as we speak, Just because MY car hasn't done it yet, doesn't mean it can't be done. It HAS BEEN.
That's why I posted those...
